Maybe I can put it off for a while. We are going on vacation in less than 2 weeks.

Further work on the 1996 Country I bought last week. Went to DMV and made it legal on Monday morning. Took it to a local tire/brake dealer who is very reliable and had them check out my brake warning light; rear brake cylinders were leaking; they thought possibly because previous owner had not driven it much. Now have new drums, shoes, hardware, cylinders and NO BRAKE WARNING light.

Replaced front marker lens a couple of days ago. Today, also installed new tail light to replace broken lens. Had my wife check the lights and now my back-up lights are working fine. Previous owner had indicated possible problem with NSS, but seems fine and I have BU lights.

Other than cracked windshield which I'll get to eventually, I'm $2100-$2200 into this 96 and everything that is significant is fixed. Combined with the 172K mileage, the Up Country package, and that everything works (windows, locks, AC, radio, etc) I'm a happy boy.

And you should be!!!! Cool stuff.

Love the look of this XJ. I want that front bumper/winch....Congratulations on the nice find. Sounds like you got a pretty awesome deal.

Well after about 2 weeks of it sitting with a bad ac clutch finely got around to changing it with a new one I had off the old xj I missed driving it.

Started on this. Gave up on the idea of using the WJ brackets for full 10-way power. Its not impossible but it's not exactly simple. I'd also have to figure out a way to mount the seat belt because there's no provisions for it on the WJ brackets. So I'm going to swap in my manual XJ brackets which will give me a seat belt. Lol

I got the bolt that broke on the floor mount drilled out. I'm just going to drill it out slightly bigger and use a nut/bolt and some washers to tighten it down.

I just need to figure out how to wire it up. Just need power and ground. Don't know where I should tap into. I heard there's supposed to be an unused harness for air bag control module that got recalled. I'll be looking into it tomorrow.

Had a new alternator installed, then tried to install new shocks and rear BPEs. Was halted to a painful stop from bugs and busted fingers when I struggled with reaching the nuts of the rear shock bolts through the body opening and finding out that the bpe should of been on the shock before bolting it back on

recovered my junk yard OHC and installed LED panels in the map lights

Installed a MOLLE visor organizer thing.

Worked for a couple hours, didn't get much done. Removed the track bar, passenger side coil and axle end control arm bolts. Also earned myself a little trophy..




That's what happens with a 4' bar and using a floor jack to turn it.

Rotated the tires and reset the toe in.

Started my tube work

Got my WJ seats installed and wired in! That power recline is awesome lol.

No pics of the seats themselves because it got too dark.

Driver side had a broken bolt to deal with, passenger did not. Swapped the manual XJ tracks over to the WJ seats, zip tied the wires back to the seat frame. Tapped into the cigarette lighter and ran wires under the console, grounded to seat bracket bolts. Easy as pie. Passenger side only took like 30 mins total because I knew what I was doing.

This was my solution for the broken bolt. Drilled through and used a 5/16ths bolt and lock nut, washers.







Highly recommend this upgrade. Much more comfortable even with the trashed suspension.

Didn't do crap but spend some money, everybody likes doing that! Ordered CRok Steering Box Reinforcing Kit, and ordered the flange spacers for the WJ swap

Got the two other shocks installed with rear BPEs one more to go but I can't get any grip with the wrench so maybe to the shop I go.